Thank you for sharing your journey with religion. As a pastor who struggles with the oppressive weight that religion (mine included) has caused, I am trying to keep learning and to keep listening for God's living voice, and to be the change I seek. I appreciated your writing here.
I work with a lot of people who appear to believe they were personally visited by Jesus. My fix on that is: "Cool! I'm glad you had a nice visit. I have not personally been visited by Jesus, I have had different visitors, but as long as your visitations give you strength, I'm not going to be a jerk and try to argue with you about them."
Also, religious rituals can be really fun. I almost converted to Judaism at one point because of all that elaborate culturally evolved ritual. But I'm a pagan, I worship trees, no point in lying about it.
Thank you for sharing your journey with religion. As a pastor who struggles with the oppressive weight that religion (mine included) has caused, I am trying to keep learning and to keep listening for God's living voice, and to be the change I seek. I appreciated your writing here.
Yes I feel the same way. I guess we just gotta keep having faith despite the oppressive weight
"wishing they nourish their identities instead of men" this one is deep !!!! Love this piece and how you write
thank you for reading!!
I work with a lot of people who appear to believe they were personally visited by Jesus. My fix on that is: "Cool! I'm glad you had a nice visit. I have not personally been visited by Jesus, I have had different visitors, but as long as your visitations give you strength, I'm not going to be a jerk and try to argue with you about them."
Also, religious rituals can be really fun. I almost converted to Judaism at one point because of all that elaborate culturally evolved ritual. But I'm a pagan, I worship trees, no point in lying about it.
Thank you!